BLUE MORRIS

If you listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan's first album, Texas Flood, from start to finish, you won't hear any of those standard turnarounds that us guitar teachers teach all the time.

Explore the influence that Buddy Guy had on blues guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan and how the style of blues guitar changed from the 1960s to the 1980s

How was BB King so good at vibrato? First off — listen to him sing. Us guitar players are so focused on the guitar playing. But if you take a moment to really listen to him sing, you'll hear incredibly deep, emotional vibrato. And that sound we hear from his guitar? It's the same vibrato we hear in his voice. That's the best vibrato there could be on the guitar. It's vocal. The 1951 Recording That Changes Everything Let's back up a bit. Imagine it's 1951 in Memphis, Tennessee

So many great guitar players of the past have mentioned this sometimes forgotten legend legend as being an inspiration. B.B. King once said: "When I heard T-Bone Walker play the electric guitar, I had to have one." Chuck Berry said: "All the things people see me do on stage, I got from T-Bone Walker." And Jimi Hendrix watched this man play guitar behind his head one night and thought: I can do that. T-Bone Walker: The Blues Guitar Style Everyone Copied His style of guitar pla

It's not the solo. The most famous part of this song is the intro and you can recognize it from the very first five notes. That space, that tension. As soon as you hear those notes, you already know what's coming. Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin Most people assume what makes this song feel so heavy and swaying is Jimmy Page's licks, Robert Plant's vocals, and John Bonham's drums. And yes, all of that is true. But there's something else at work — something mathemati

It's January 1954 in Chicago. A Mississippi-born guitar player known as Muddy Waters walks into a recording studio with a song written by his bass player, Willie Dixon. What they laid down that day was so raw, so ahead of its time, it didn't just become a hit — it became the foundation for countless blues and rock songs throughout history. That song was I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man. And here's what I think most people miss about it. It's Not Just the Notes — It's the Silence

I'm happy to announce that the new book is now available on Amazon! The book should now be in Amazon stores around the world. Links to some of the stores are here: ​ USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWN35WH5 CAN: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0GWN35WH5 UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GWN35WH5 AUS: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0GWN35WH5 ... and more just search for "Six Steps to Pentatonic Mastery Blue Morris" 📖 KINDLE USERS : A Kindle version / e-book version on Amazon will b

Learn how to use a guitar capo and why they were used by famous guitar players in rock and folk music

One of things that is crucially important for all guitar students to learn are the pentatonic shapes on the fretboard. Usually I suggest...

… at least not yet. Last week I posted a video on YouTube that received quite a lot of comments. Some people expressed disagreement and...

There is some bad advice out there from some very high profile YouTubers. If you're learning guitar, be sure to find the right lessons...

Guitar chords for the song Winter by the Rolling Stones

The most suspenseful chord on the guitar must be… the major minor 7 chord! Sounds like that old Batman TV show. Or is it the sus4 chord?...

Download a successful guitar practice routine that will help you improve your skills fast! Do this first every time you play guitar!

Understand the fretboard better and use landmarks to find scales, chords, licks, argeggios, intervals and more!

Break out of the pentatonic scale by harmonizing melodies on the guitar using thirds, and Jimi Hendrix style double stops!

This is the easiest way to remember how to switch from Major Pentatonic to Minor Pentatonic and back again. The amazing thing about this...

Learn these two simple rules to massively improve phrasing in your guitar solos: Rhythmic Targets and Harmonic Targets

The minor pentatonic scale is only five notes, which means that there are two notes missing. And one of those notes is the sweetest note...

Combining chords and scales on the guitar is something that so many guitar students ask me about in their lessons with me here in...